skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, I mean that's basically what it is in Canada as well— it's just so much more than going to the doctor, where you never even see a bill.

An example of my frustration with dental: I went to my usual dentist for a checkup, but then he referred me to a specialist. The specialist appointment wasn't going to be for a month, but then they call suddenly and have a cancellation the next day. I end up having to pay full price for the specialist appointment because my insurance doesn't like that I had two "assessment" appointments back to back.

On another occasion, I was quoted a procedure, and my decision for when I wanted to have it done was driven entirely by which insurance-year it was going to fall under, rather than by my convenience or how urgent it was, or anything else.

I know these are fundamentally "insurance issues" and I suppose better supplemental insurance could make them go away, but at the end of the day, just like with Americans, my insurance is chosen by my employer and I have basically no control over it.
Are the people downvoting still using WPA?

or betting their life on WPA3 that haven't had a decent sized deployment yet?

Or did they bet their lives on WPA2-PSK/WPA2-enterp during the first months of launch before any exploit was public?

:)
This short squeeze is tightly correlated with online anti-semitism, as hateful individuals see this as an opportunity to stick it to wallstreet, where the hedge fund and banking industry are highly over represented with the jewish community. If you dont believe me go look on 4chan, these forums need to be shut down immediately to stop this hate and market manipulation
Sure, our healthcare and insurance laws are straight-up scams, but can a law be criminal?
Agreed, it definitely is limited. Also the admin panel is limited too, and although it's very extendable, the admin extension API is kind of clunky and inconsistent at times. Yeah FastAPI looks great! I've used Sanic in the past and FastAPI seems cool for some of the same reasons. I'm also following closely Django Hotwire - https://hotwire.dev/

I only brought up Django in a narrow context to challenge an assumption made by the post I was replying to, that seemed to imply that JavaScript ecosystem is indisputably the fastest for rapid prototyping. Hence my providing of a counter-example. I think this is especially true for new coders, as having certain things out of the way is super vital to keep motivated when building MVPs -- I've seen many students give up on ideas simply because implementing authentication with a Node.js-based stack was too challenging, when they would have been happily coding away had we been teaching a batteries-included framework (django / rails / etc).
They’re also not insurable, by the definition of insurance.
> people would just be putting it on EC2 themselves without Amazon's managed offering

Which seems to negate the core argument Elastic is giving for the change.
Reddit was clean but some channels in discord had ... questionable users. Most channels were heavily moderated and kept clean though.
Yes, GME's current price does not reflect the value of the company. That being said, anybody that feels that staying involved in a short play involving a profitable retailer with significant activist investor interest when short interest is exceeding 100% is a good idea shouldn't be allowed within 10 miles of a risk management office. If someone's definition of pump and dump scheme includes investors making awful decisions and contractually obligating themselves to handing their money over to other people at insane losses, then this is one. For the rest of the world that is willing to call a bad trade what it is (even when the winners have quite the potty mouth), it doesn't even come close.
That said, amazing that the other 10% apparently tracked thought an actual open-source licence was worth it enough to make their way through that.
As long as they're produced in a reasonable way, they work just fine. The option was even included natively in adobe reader 9 https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/tech_qu...

Where it breaks down is some badly designed OCR systems which place the letters independently rather than in lines/blocks. But that's starting from a document which was not accessible in the first place, so not a huge issue.
Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19425305
Downvoted, yet doesn’t even qualify as satire anymore
He likes the stock, nothing strange about that. Should he be listening to someone else telling him what to pay for something?
So this one is wrong?

https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/98418/does-short-s...
> You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad.

The problem with this statement is the shifting use of "you". I might know that a mob acts like a mob, but I'm certainly not going to be surprised if "my" rights are affected if I'm part of the group from which the mob manifested. That doesn't mean the decision to alter my rights is directed at me, personally.

Random speculation about why this was done or who did it, for what reasons, is also a type of mob thinking.
But this is total fantasy argument. Tesla will not have a monopoly. Why should they? Nothing is stopping other people from creating charging stations. Certainty not Tesla.

> But will they?

Yes, eventually it will be a financial make sense, but that is to 5-10 years away.

> But if we end up with a situation where infrastructure is disjointed or where it's infeasible for anyone else to launch any competetition then Tesla have gained a market position that might be "fair" to them but unfair to everyone else.

But this isn't the case. And will not be the case. So I don't get why you are making that argument.
I haven't heard anything to suggest that the short sellers are forced to buy back the stock either. This is a stock has clearly caught public's attention, Once the hype cycle is over, why wouldn't it regress to the mean? Who's going to believe that the stock stays at this level over the long term?

Fun to talk about though. This is a very entertaining story.
Can you explain why someone being gay is deprecating?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortsale.asp
> And they become the seed around which the new community crystallizes.

Only if they have time to, is my concern.
Sweet. I was starting to put one together myself as there is an immense need. I felt it as a first responder looking for a vaccine slot. Finally got one (vaccine), but it wasn’t easy. So many different providers. So much scraping.

All the best, thanks for doing this.
/biz/ has been flooded with r/wallstreetbets traffic for days and days now. /smg/ threads hit bump limit in 20 minutes sometimes ever since this GME thing really got going. It's even outdone the usual crypto posting on /biz/ which I didn't ever think would happen.
we must shut down these practices and online forums where hate speech and anti semitic conspiracy theories circulate. This short squeeze is just another sad attempt to hurt the jewish community - referring to 4chan.
From a quick search, it seems that in the US, generic drugs still go through an approval process called ANDA, but it's simpler because there are no clinical trials. When one drug manufacturer raises prices on its generic, a lengthy approval process still inhibits other drug manufacturers from quickly introducing competing generics, even if they have the capabilities.
https://www.nutrisense.io can send you CGMs without a prescription, but isn't available yet to diabetics for that reason. There's an online evaluation. It's far more expensive than just the Freestyle Libre CGM they provide, but their app is far better, and the price comes with a decent consulting service.
I haven't come to that yet, but when our 3 year old GSD went blind, even though it was an elective surgery it wasn't a super difficult choice to spend that much to restore his sight (cataract surgery) given that the same problem basically can't come back. He is six now, and it has really improved his quality of life (he enjoys chasing sticks in the lake again). If he was 10, we would probably not have made the same choice to spend the money; because he would get much less benefit from it.

You spend more time with your dog than most people, and I certainly care about him more than any person who is not in my immediate family.
Appreciate the correction, no pun intended.
Nobody thought GME was a good company (certainly not worth $15+ a share). They thought that the short interest in GME stock was too large, and that longing the stock could trigger a short squeeze the likes of which has never been seen. So far it seems they were right.
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I'm really confused because wouldn't that require a filing with the SEC to authorize shares? Wouldn't that number become part of the float?

I looked into "fails" data, and I'm a bit lost [0].

Is Alice's IOU sellable as a security with voting rights? Who gets to vote on those 100 shares? There are now 200 votes? That's very strange.

I've heard of synthetic longs before but in options [1]

[0] https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm

[1] https://www.theoptionsguide.com/synthetic-long-stock.aspx
Many articles online written about it explaining. It's basically a short squeeze against the old guard, big evil hedge funds/institutions holding short positions (sell) against Game Stop.

An entire "army" of retail investors inspired and collaborated (conspiracy ?) on wallstreetbets a subreddit to buy Game Stop stock, some say mostly call options, which overwhelmed the positions of the Big Boys. This may be a first in history where a band of smaller retail guys banded together to slay the big guys. There are over 3 million followers of wallstreetbets forum.

Fallout: Discord stopped serving them, and certain brokers halted their clients trading on Game Stop which likely angry traders having those accounts will close them and sign up with more reliable brokers who are not "providing cover for their enemies".

Some other stocks are also allegedly being bought by wallstreetbets, such as AMD theatres and KOSS, maker of headphones and speakers.

In the coming weeks Americans will see whether our democratic politicians "walk the talk" providing for more transparency in the markets or they capitulate to the huge institutions and hedge funds with new regulations that restrict the small retail investors further. For all of history these big institutions and hedge funds have been fleecing smaller retail traders.

Someone showed me a investigational report on the 3 major institutional players and their leaders and almost all of them have either paid huge fines to the SEC, or been indicted or under investigation at one time or another. Some are still actively under FBI and SEC investigation. Some escaped prison time.
Because cows aren't really fungible, but stocks are.

If I borrow $10 from you, you don't expect the literal note that you gave me back. I can give you $10 back in coins, or $10 transferred to your bank account. I can burn the $10 note you gave me, give it to a homeless person, or re-lend it to my friend. There's nothing illegal about that.

On the other hand if I borrow your car, you're expecting the same car back. I can't sell it and then give you another similar car in return. I can't borrow your car and then lend it to my friend.
That's interesting thanks for that info I've never setup webrtc with two stun servers.

But still I think at least how I read single point of failure: it's reliant on a 3rd party. even if multiple 3rd party it's not realistically trustable in the way 'owning' the full stack would be. Though host your own as someone else points out below.
Absolutely, and thanks for the kind words. Had to setup nearly all of this scraping just to get a vaccine slot for a family member. Building the site was almost trivial after that.
Hey, this is awesome. Is there anyway to know which vaccine you’re getting scheduled for? For example, I’d rather get a Moderna vaccine than Pfizer due to the superior efficacy against strain variants.
You don't have to have over 100% but you do need a significant amount. For a squeeze to occur you have to have 1) some initial upward price movement and 2) enough short interest that as people get uncomfortable with the increased downside (or their broker calls them on their margin), they have to buy real shares to close out their short positions, thus increasing the upward pressure on the price. That drives the price higher, and causes more people to get uncomfortable and more margin calls to be made, driving the price even higher. Other people notice the price and trade volume going up and want in on the action, which drives the price even higher. This cascades until there are no more surviving short positions.

The whole thing about borrowing 200 cows is illustrating the concept of leverage, but it isn't necessary. We could have illustrated the concept of a short squeeze by saying the hedge fund borrowed 50 cows, and a Redditor noticed and bought 51 cows. When the hedge fund needs to close their position there are only 49 cows available and the Redditor can ask an insane amount of money for the last cow. And that isn't even really how a short squeeze works (see top paragraph).

A squeeze can happen with any amount of short interest. But if it's a tiny amount it will be swallowed by the other random noise in the market, and won't cascade into a giant news story. Gamestop had right around 150% short interest in December. The other crazy thing is not just the number of shares shorted, but what prices they might be at. The 50 day moving average is about $30. If you shorted at $30, you had a 500% downside yesterday. If you still weren't forced to close your position then you were at 1000% downside today. The one year low is $2.57. If you shorted any sizeable position at $2.57 you're probably thinking about jumping off a skyscraper.
Ha, I got booted out of RE class in about 1972 for asking if Jesus had to appear on every planet in which intelligent life appears.
I just looked and near me (Iowa) the nearest charging stations are over an hour away. It looks like they are located near the major truck stops going through the state. That makes sense I guess, but you don't pass those places unless you are traveling long distance.

I see a fair number of Teslas around town, but I have to imagine they all just charge at home. I know of a single charging station in the area and it supports either one or two cars from what I remember.
Push back.. if his sense of urgency is to become yours then it needs to be worth it. Do not undersell yourself. Tell the client that you will need to shift other projects around to accommodate him. Then tell him his urgent work gets billed at your rush rate. Which should be at least double your regular rate, plus you require a payment / retainer of 50% before starting the work.

I suspect that it will not be quite so urgent after all. If it still is, that's great, you're prepared and can focus on the work. Your other clients will respect that you took on a rush job. Watch out for any deadlines you've already promised! Some should not be changed, you know your clients better than we do.

As for negotiation tactics, I find that if I listen more and talk less I learn a lot from the client. Ask questions, take notes, show them you're serious. Don't let yourself be bowled over by their panic mode. Learn to say No. Learn to say I don't know.

But in the end not all clients are worth keeping.
Cows aren't fungible, so that analogy isn't great. The key thing to keep in mind is that here you do legally own the share you bought, except that when buying it you also signed a contract that says you will resell a share to the original owner at the original price, plus interest.

This is exactly how loans from banks work. You took money from the bank and bought a house. You now do not have enough money to pay back the bank, but the bank doesn't mind, because they only care about the contract that says they will get their money back plus interest.
> As a Canadian engineer, I've always found what exactly a UK engineer is somewhat murky. Growing up, if someone told me their father was an engineer I would never think working class. I've lived in Germany too and having an engineering degree was a big deal there, so I know it isn't a European thing, well at least pre-Brexit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer#UK:

> In the UK, "engineering" has more recently been erroneously styled as an industrial sector consisting of employers and employees loosely termed "engineers" who include tradespeople. However, knowledgeable practitioners reserve the term "engineer" to describe a university-educated professional of ingenuity represented by the Chartered (or Incorporated) Engineer qualifications.[23] A large proportion of the UK public incorrectly thinks of "engineers" as skilled tradespeople or even semi-skilled tradespeople with a high school education. Also, many UK skilled and semi-skilled tradespeople falsely style themselves as "engineers". This has created confusion in the eyes of some members of the public in understanding what professional engineers actually do, from fixing car engines, television sets and refrigerators (technicians, handymen) to designing and managing the development of aircraft, spacecraft, power stations, infrastructure and other complex technological systems (engineers).[citation needed]

It kinda sounds like "engineer" in UK usage encompasses might roles that I'd call "technicians" as an American.
Those complaints aren't for users but for makers. Apple doesn't make devices for makers.
Farmer and omnivore here. Nicely put. Your comment was accurate and evenhanded. I love how you state your bias up front. Duly upvoted.
CNN is a news site not a hedge fund, do they have quotes from hedge funds that I missed (entirely possible)?
That’s the doomsday scenario and thankfully “completely useless” is quite unlikely. However all viruses mutate and so it’s only a matter of time before the current vaccines become gradually less effective. We give people 3-4 new vaccines a year (usually in one “flu shot”) in the never ending battle against the mutating influenza virus. So it’s really important we get as many people vaccinated ASAP. Every new person infected makes millions upon millions of copies of the virus, each one being a new opportunity for mutations to develop. Stopping infections exponentially slows down the rate at which the virus can mutate simply because it’s being “photocopied” fewer and fewer times.
i will bite.

How does the user benefit from having a phone built on top of open source software, that they cannot update a well known security vulnerability because the manufacturer can't bother to run a build with the last upstream version?
> ...in Manaus, Brazil, a study of blood donors indicated that 76% (95% CI 67–98) of the population had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by October, 2020.

> There are at least four non-mutually exclusive possible explanations for the resurgence of COVID-19 in Manaus.

1. wrong case reproduction number (R0) of 3

2. waning immunity

3. a new immunity evading variant

4. a more transmissible variant with a higher effective reproductive number

I'd say the simplest explanation is that the 76% seroprevalence study was wrong.
That’s dope. Congrats. It’s not easy. I’m Type 1 and have been between 5.9% and 6.4% for a couple years now.
I mean it's a bunch of people memeing on a stock. To call it a scheme isn't really accurate.
Find useful jobs somewhere else.
In Delaware, Walgreens does Moderna. Not sure if Walgreens uses only Moderna nationwide. There would likely be more info on their site.
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Short selling is not revolutionary at all. Options and short selling are perfectly normal market instruments that have far ranging utility, including both hedging securities and insurance on tangible goods (e.g. a pork farmer buying puts on pork to ensure he can sell his product at a specific price).

Neither is it "radical" in any type of market. It just means selling something you don't actually have yet (something you're "short"). Think of a middleman who sources classic cars. He contractually agrees to sell a 1991 Ferrari for $60k. He doesn't yet own the vehicle, but knows he can source them for $50k. Unfortunately for him, a recently popular meme has gassed the price of Ferraris, and he now has to pay $70k for the car. He's still obligated to sell at $60k, so he begrudgingly takes delivery and loses $10k, having "sold short" the car. Is he revolutionary or radical?
Not sure if you're trying to make a point here?
Well, that "Hedge-fund cries foul" (which I've questioned in a direct reply, let's keep that discussion over there).
The put is just another instrument that trades. What will under normal circumstances keep a put close to the "correct" price? Well, if the price goes too high, people will start writing puts, driving the price down.

If you write a put, you're long the stock. To hedge yourself, you'll need to short it. To the extent that that is difficult right now, nobody will be willing to write puts. (Strictly speaking, the put is so out of the money right now, that one would not have to short much today. But as soon as the stock price falls and approaches the strike, the writer of the put would need to start shorting. "Hey, anyone got some shares I could borrow?")

On the other hand, if you want to take a negative view on the company, buying a put is sensible thing to do. That'll drive the price of the puts up.
I was just thinking maybe next someone is going to post about webrings!
8chan did a rename but is indeed still going, https://8kun.top

That link is now banned on Wikipedia even though...
This page was specifically created as a library example. Here's the full collection: https://observablehq.com/collection/@twitter/density

If you're interested in the technique behind the plot you can read more about how that works in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06019
> If Mozart could hear in his head how the music ought to go, Leonardo, judging from his sketches, could simply see in his mind’s eye how the machine should work or the painting should look.

There seems to be some thing that allows creative construction of these things, in mind, as opposed to simple recall of the sounds or images, in mind.

For example, Mozart might have been able to creatively "construct" the sound of his composures in his mind, but just because someone has heard a Mozart composure performed and then can recall it later, in mind, that fact doesn't make them a genius.

It's both creating and hearing/seeing it first that makes it special.
I have no problem with animals being slaughtered for food. We are all part of the food chain. But I have to agree, it really rubs me wrong way when people use terms like “harvest“ or “finish” when they really mean slaughter.
Next step is daily cycling of the password and an e-ink display with the QR code!
That story in particular jumps out at me. This is being described as a rebellion against rich Wall Street bankers by the everyday people... but who has $50K sitting around for investments like this?

Don't get me wrong, I think a lot of people buying are full of rage at Wall Street. But I think they might get even angrier when they realize who made off with most of the money in the end.
My doctor was happy to give me a prescription for the cost of an office visit. I've heard that's generally the case. The only reason not to provide them OTC seems to me to be an outrageous and harmful paternalism.
Dropbox are currently laying off 315 employees but I imagine any process improvement that can save 5-10 full time employee equivalents is more than welcome.
Yeah I know, thanks for the reminder though!!
I mean in Java or C# there are "global" objects, being the Main class, I suppose. There's always a top-level construct.

But my Sword class doesn't hold a reference to a NetState object.